Is Acupuncture Real And Useful or Not?

Yes. It doesn't replace Western Medicine with this ancient Eastern art, but the proof is that it works on specific maladies.

"Acupuncture is an effective, non-pharmacological method to reduce intra-operative nausea during elective cesarean section in the awake patient." BJ Stein, St. Luke's Hospital; and Columbia University, college of Physicians and Surgeons.

This research was published in 1997, and has been continually cited in other scientific reports through 2005, on 'morning-sickness' and 'motion-sickness'.

Dr. Robert O. Becker, twice nominated for the Nobel, said in "Cross Currents:

The promise of electro-medicine is: our bodies are filled with electromagnetic energy; meridians, and pressure points contain large amounts of such energy - that non-acupuncture do not exhibit.

Does it impress you that the use of acupuncture, and its sister system - acupressure,are 3,000 years old? Acupuncture is the use of needles at the 'meridians', while acupressure is the application of manipulation of the pressure points using the fingers or a tool.

One thing to remember is that acupressure is based on the 'pulse' being felt because the spot underlies an 'artery'. It is neither voodoo nor random massage.

Acupuncture was first reported in the U.S. when Nixon went to China in February 1972 to meet Chairman Mao. In 2006 there are almost 10,000 physicians practicing acupuncture in the U.S., and the federal government endorses research by offering grants.

Auto-Acupressure

We suggest that you can gain the benefits of acupressure without the help of a physician, using your own hands. Another method is using simple tools to trigger the healing reflexes of our body, when linked to our mental imagery strategies.

Grab a tubular stick, the wooden part of a mop or broom, or a foot massage 'roller'sold in sporting goods and natural health stores. Some of our graduates manipulate one-foot at a time, others want to release the stress or initiate massage in both feet simultaneously. Your choice.

The areas to use a 'roller' for acupressure are: your feet, hands, face, and ears.

A pen or pencil produces excellent results on the face and ears.

Reflexology

Millions of people worldwide act on the belief that the foot, face and ears contain links to the organs and glands of the body. They believe that massage of one produces an efficacious effect on the other. There is no scientific evidence that massage of 'reflex points' on the foot produces an improvement of a particular organ's condition.

The only good result of daily massage is improved circulation,

and flexibility of the manipulated muscles, tendons and ligaments.

Still, it is non-invasive and potentially useful.

Two-Minute BIS(TM) Behavioral Intelligence Strategy

Step #1 - find a foot roller or use a tubular-stick to place under your naked

feet.

Step #2 - sit down, hands on top of your thighs, and drop your shoulders in

relaxation.

Step #3 - eyes open, focus on your feet, and begin to do a log-roll using the palms

of your feet. Move from your toes to your heel, and back. Continuous massage

by rolling your feet back-and-forth often produces warmth in your abdomen or other areas of your body. You have one-minute and about 25 slow rolls to perform.

Step #4 - Simultaneously inhale a diaphragmatic breath, hold it for a count of five,

and slowly exhale - while rolling from toes to heels. This releases stresses and

excites the activation of 'endorphins' of deep relaxation.

Step #5 - Now, close your eyes while simultaneously rolling your feet from toes to heels, and mental visualize on the movie-screen of your imagination in great detail exactly what you are physically doing. The goal is both mentally-seeing the virtual reality, and physically exercising. You have one-minute and about 25 slow rolls to perform.

Step #6 - Prior to opening your eyes and getting back to work, mentally repeat

and hear subvocally - "And it is so!", with great enthusiasm. This Target Affirmation doubles the strength of your acupressure exercise.

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You are responsible for your own experiment. The results improve if you follow the law of 21, practicing this six-step exercise for three-weeks until it becomes an 'engram', a memory-trace. After that you may use this acupressure method to

randomly improve your immune system and perhaps relieve pain at specific times.

Speedlearners are interested in strategies that produce stressbusting, and perhaps

increase the activity of our immune system. For many years we have been offering

this strategy to graduates. Many have embraced it, and none have complained

of any negative feedback.

We have received scores of recommendations about the roller acupressure system.

"It's not that some folks have willpower and others don't.

It's that some people are ready for self-improvement, and others

are scared of change."

Evelyn Wood

Can you remember the last personal-growth skill you added to your

arsenal?

Would it improve your career to read-and-remember three (3) books

articles and reports in the time your peers can finish just one?

See ya,

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hbw@speedlearning.org

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Author of Speed Reading for Professionals, published by Barron's Educational, partner of Evelyn Wood, creator of Speed Reading, graduated 2 million, including the White House staff of four U.S. Presidents.

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Drugstore Anti-puffy eye cream/roller for a teen?

I get super puffy eyes in the morning, like every single day, and I hate it! I've tried massaging it and everything but won't work! So im looking for a Anti-puffy eye roller or a cream that can be bought at drugstores.

Do an Answers search and you will see many have tried all the under eye and dark bags creams and under eye rollers and report they were not even slightly effective.
There is an epidemic of under eye bags and circles and many are reported by those in teens or early twenties. The main reason is reaction to skin sickening toxins in skin care, cosmetic and skin medicating products. Many teenage girls use 20 or more products daily and an alarming number of products contain skin(and health) harming toxins. See this site Skin Deep Cosmetic Database. A Feelgood Resource. The Database tested many thousands of products and identifies which ones are the most harming and those which are non or only minimally harming. So first thing to do is select the none or least harming products.

Then try these safe, natural, tried and tasted treatments that quickly and permanently get rid of them. They really work and have helped many on Answers

This is a response I received from wannabeblue28:
“Hi Mukunda M. I have just been rubbing my face with oil using my fingers and hands and It has made a HUGE difference in my complexion after just one night. …… My skin looks so much tighter everywhere and i no longer have bags under my eyes! Thank you so much for your post, I have been suffering with acne and under-eye circles since i was young.”

She had seen an answer I gave about how vigorous face massaging with pure natural oils had permanently rid my face of acne AND removed my bags/circles. Massage greatly tightens skin under and around the eye area and the bags go away. Find Answer with a search "Mukunda M vigorous massage to remove eye bags/circles"

The most helpful ones are:
(Using both hands together) massage with palms and front of fingers held together
(1) Do long up and down sweeps close to nose from chin area up to near eyes.
(2) Do another up and back at an angle from chin point to cheek bone.
(3) Do fast up and down massage close to eye from cheek bones at an angle of 45 degrees (on your crows feet).
Best if do for several minutes daily – will markedly tighten skin in eye area and diminish the circles in the first two or three days. Use any oil. Olive is good.
IMPORTANT: To avoid skin pulling first make facial skin taught by partially opening mouth and pulling lips firmly back against teeth (tightens most of face)

Use any natural oil. Extra virgin olive oil works well for many.
Additionally facial yoga exercises help a great deal. Find on You Tube. Do the “The lion face” and try to hold for 30 seconds. A variation of that is protruding the tongue as if trying to touch tip of nose with tip of tongue.

YOGA MEDITATION is a great help and is easy to do. It enables you to completely relax and gives you deep, restful sleep. 6 or 7 hours of restful sleep is considerably more beneficial than 8 or 9 more hours of non restful sleep. I found Siddha Yoga meditation was the most beneficial.

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It can help! I have dark eye circles under my eyes and wouldn't say I have wrinkles, but the skin is so thin that you really can't have perfectly smooth skin there (maybe if you're reallyyyyy young!). I have heard that that helps. If you don't see anything from it, stay away from make up counters at Nordstrom and Sephora--most of those are highway robbery. What I would suggest would be to see your/a dermatologist to see what they recommend in products. I know that products containing peptides will help with your collagen. Over time, your skin's elasticity (collagen) breaks down and that is what causes wrinkles. Things like environmental factors are usually what cause it. Another key thing is to moisturize...I'd suggest using a day cream with SPF 15/20 (your eyes really don't need to be tan--you need to wear eyewear in the sun anyway because of eye damage) so that it prevents further damage and also a night cream that helps to build collagen and moisture in the area.

Another thing that I suggest, if you can afford it, is microdermabrasion or a facial peel. I am also 19 and have fair skin (getting tanner though!) and freckles to show. I also have minor acne and combination of dry/t-zone oily skin. I got this peel last week called the Vi peel--contains salicylic acid, glycolic acid, etc. Seriously EXPENSIVE, but what it does is sting/burn for two minutes and gets rid of the top layer of skin. You have two nights that you put on this wipe (it's like a hand wipe, but with Vitamin C and Retin-A) which makes your skin dry out more! This is good though, because Days 3 and 4 your skin will peel like crazy (doesn't hurt, you don't pick at it though). This is the top layer of your skin (epidermis) coming off. Your skin is forced to rapidly produce new layers (it will be a little sensitive) and that will make your skin thicker//have more collagen to it. It helps (this one in particular, there are many peels out there) with hyper-pigmentation (freckles, scars, etc.), surface lines and wrinkles, acne, and other things. You are supposed to get it once every 3 months and some peels you get once every two months. Research it and ask your parents if you can have one as a birthday gift. My mom said my skin never looked better---impurities were brought to surface and vanished (yes acne there was gone and new ones it brought out were gone after a few days), most of my freckles are gone, and if I had any fine lines or wrinkles, I suppose they are not there anymore! =]

All in all, YES try their eye roller! =]

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Facial lotions, creams and anti-bacterial gels are recommendable twice in a day. Before exposing the skin to direct sunlight, the use of such skincare moisturizers can prevent dryness. Application of facial moisturizers followed by messaging keeps the skin lively. Best skin moisturizers are available with herbal, ayurvedic, organic ingredients. The application of various components in the face depends upon the person's age, nature of infections, skin etc. Chemical ingredients are the common component responsible for giving an immediate outcome.

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